Acts #2 — Stephen Kaung

May we read from the book of Acts chapter 2. Acts chapter 2. We'll read from verse 1. And when the day of Pentecost was now accomplished they were all together in one place and there came suddenly a sound out of heaven as of a violent impetuous blowing and filled all the house where they were sitting and there appeared to them parted tongues as of fire and it set upon each one of them and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and Began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave to them to speak for.

Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews pious men from every nation of those under heaven. And that a rumor of this having spread the multitude came together and were confounded. Because each one heard them speaking in his own dialect and all were amazed and wondered saying behold are not all these were speaking Galileans and.

And how do we hear them each in our own dialect in which we have been born? Parthians and me and Elamite and those inhabitants inhabit Mesopotamia and Judea Cathedronia Cappadocia Pontus and Asia both previous as Pennsylvia Egypt and the part of Libya.

Libya Which adjourned Syrians and the Roman sojourning here both Jews and Prophets Cretans and Arabians we hear them speaking in our own tongue the great things of God and They were all amazed and in perplexity.

Saying one to another what will this mean. But others marking says they are full of new wine. So Peter standing up with the 11 lifted up his voice and spoke forth to them men of Judea and all Inhabitants of Jerusalem let this be known to you and give heed to my words.

For these are not full of wine as he supposed for it is the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken through the prophet Jua and it shall be in the last day says God That I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy.

And your young men shall see visions and your elders shall dream with dreams. Yeah, even upon my bondman upon my bond woman in those days will I pour out of my spirit and they shall prophesy and I will give wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below blood and fire and Vapor of smoke the sun shall be changed to darkness and the moon to blood.

Before the great and glorious appearing day of the Lord come and it shall be that whosoever Shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Verse 33. Having therefore been exhorted by the right hand of God and Having received of the father the promise of the Holy Spirit.

He has poured out this which he behold. And here verse 36. Let the whole house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him This Jesus whom you have crucified both Lord and Christ. First Corinthians chapter 12.

First Corinthians verses 12 and 13. For even as the body is one and has many members. But all the members of the body being many are one body. So also is the Christ. For also in the power of one spirit We have all been baptized into one body.

For the Jews are Greek for the born men are free and have all been given to drink of one last night we Mentioned that a gospel according to Luke recall What our Lord Jesus? Began to do and to speak. But the book of Acts Recalls what our Lord Jesus Continues to do and to speak in a gospel according to Luke the Lord Began to do and to speak in his own person in his own personal body.

But in the book of Acts he continues to do and to speak in a mystic corporate body. Even the body so strictly speaking the book of Acts Should not be called the act of the apocryphal. Because originally you don't find that in the manuscript strictly speaking.

It should be called the act of our Lord Jesus of the Risen Lord by his spirit through his church. It is still the same Lord who is speaking and who is doing. The only difference is once he did it in his own Physical body now he is doing it in his mystic corporate body.

Christ Continues His Work Through His Body

For this reason it is of Great importance for us today to know what this body is. How this body is for? How does it function? Because the Lord Jesus is today and Doing in that body how important it is That by the grace of God we will give him that body.

We will be That body or in that body. So that he is able to continue to finish what he is speaking and what he is doing not by we mentioned after his resurrection. He spent 40 days Appear to his disciples Living speaking to them the things concerning the kingdom of God in those 40 days He prepared his disciples For the day of Pentecost in those 40 days.

He draw them. He drew them out He lifted them out of the realm of the physical Into the realm of the spiritual he delivered them out of the flesh into the He put them on the resurrection ground So that they may become that new vassal that and then for 10 days The hundred and twenty people they waited in Jerusalem Making themselves ready, so we mentioned last night That those 50 days were very important days.

These were the days where the Lord Jesus prevailed and His people prevailed For the birth of the church the body hundred and twenty people assembled In that upper chamber in Jerusalem When the Lord Jesus was on earth There must be more than hundred twenty people Following him at one time.

The Bible says he appeared to five hundred brotherly Probably at the time of his ascension. But surely there were more than five hundred brotherly who were the Lord there were five hundred Who saw him?

Out of the five hundred there were a hundred twenty Who gave themselves to continual prayer? For ten days. Now I wonder Probably some of the five hundred or maybe all of the five hundred they returned to Jerusalem But after a day or two or after a few days Probably they couldn't stand it anymore and they began to scatter So when it came to the day of Pentecost Only a hundred and twenty were there They were there Continuing in praying Into the day.

The Witnesses Gathered for Pentecost

Look at this. Among the hundred and twenty there were the twelve apostles. You consider Matthias as one of the twelve. It depends on your interpretation. You find there were the twelve apostles. These twelve apostles were people Who were with the Lord Jesus Since the day of John the Baptist Until the day he was taken up to heaven.

So for over three years These people knew the Lord Jesus. They heard the call of discipleship They left everything to follow the Lord. They were with the Lord when the Lord was speaking They were with the Lord when the Lord was doing many things.

They were they as it were They were with the Lord through his death And through his resurrection. They were with the Lord during that forty days of his appearance and They were together Conveying in prayer.

These twelve apostles had a good background A history. Can you find any? Twelve people who had a better background More solid history with the Lord than these twelve apostles. Not only the twelve apostles were there.

There were Some women there. Now these women Were the same women as you'll find in Luke chapter 8. They minister unto the Lord and To his disciples during the earthly days of our Lord. Our Lord with his disciples travel around Preaching the gospel of the kingdom and these women They minister to the Lord When the disciples apostles were so frightened scared to death hid themselves some of these women Considered as the feeble sect They were there at the cross.

They saw the body of the Lord Jesus buried and they came early in the morning and They were the women that saw the Lord Before the other and they were the women who were given the message To the disciples of our Lord.

The Lord said I go to see my father Your father my God Wonderful. Not only these women were there. The Bible says the mother of Jesus was there And his brethren in the front. The mother of Jesus Mary was the most blessed among all women.

How she gave her body to God That out of her womb The Son of God might came. A sword entered into her soul, but she was willing and his brethren. These brethren, you know, they did not believe the Lord when the Lord was living.

They even in a sense were sarcastic. And so now if you want to be famous Don't hide yourself in the hilly country in Galilee. Go to Jerusalem at the feast show yourself. Then you will become famous. There they were his brethren.

After his revelations Of course the Lord appeared himself to James his brother in the flesh as we know Wrote two of them the epistle of Jude and the epistle of James. They turned completely to the Lord and They gave themselves completely and aside from these there were others.

But certainly all the rest of the hundred-tenty people were the elite the cream of the followers of our Lord Jesus. And these hundred-tenty people were together for ten days. Think of it giving themselves to continual prayer the whole world a more spiritual a Better congregation than this congregation of a hundred.

Anyone will be satisfied with such a congress if I'm privileged To be in that congregation. What more do I want so wonderful people? Give it together. Which when a call you don't need you will think that that enough.

From Congregation to the Body of Christ

Surely God can use this congregation of a hundred-tenty people to be his witness to the whole world. Here was a congregation of a hundred-tenty members the best you can ever have on this earth. And yet the Lord says what the Lord wants is not a congregation.

As a congregation cannot be that vessel Through which he can continue to speak. We will be satisfied with a congregation if we can get the best members. But the Lord Jesus is not satisfied with the best congregation in this world and with all Good members because only a body Can be that.

Dear brothers and sisters We must see the difference between a congregation. Between a congregation and a body is the difference between heaven and earth. A congregation can be organized by man but a body must be born.

A congregation may be a gathering of many superior members. When you look at each individual every individual is superior and they can come together and pray wonderful but they are 12 in 420 individuals.

They may come together and pray but they are not one. They are still 120 individuals. But a body with 120 members is different. It is not just a matter of congregating it is a matter of being one. Even when they are not together they are one.

It is organic right? Not organizational. There is a unity there which you do not find is looking for as a continuation of himself on earth is not a congregation of many congregations. But and because what he wants is a body and only a body can continue his speaking.

The day of Pentecost is the day when the body when the church dear brothers and sisters the church cannot be organized. It can only be organized if you organize it, it is a congregation. But if it is born it is here you find a congregation of 120 people and they pray together with one accord good spirit.

The Sound, Fire, and Meaning of Pentecost

When the day of the Pentecost was they came to the 50th day and they were together, 120 people still praying together. Now they must very early in the morning I don't know how early but it must be very early.

And when they were together in one place there was a sound coming out from heaven as a violent impetuous blow. Now in different versions you find there are different descriptions, as a mighty wing, the Russian of the mighty wing and so forth, well as a matter of fact in the original the idea is the sound as of a continuous heart breathing the whole house.

Then there appeared to them party tongues as of fire, not fire it came upon, then they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they began to speak with different tongues. Here was the sound, here was the sight.

Party tongues as of fire. And because there was the sound it filled the whole house because the tongues came upon every one of them and they began to speak as a spirit. You hear the sound you see the sight.

Is this what it is? Why the sight? What is the real meaning behind the sound? You know very often we are attracted by the sound and the sight but we forget the meaning of the sound as Campbell Morgan says, you know Campbell Morgan is considered as the prince of expositors.

Campbell Morgan says he says how often we remember the incidental and forget the essential, yes there was the sound. It was like a heart breathing God is really the baptism, then the sight party tongues as of fire coming upon them.

That's the gift or the gift manifestation. So dear brothers and sisters you know what happened on that day? What happened on that day is more than just a sound and a sight. What happened on that day was they were baptized with the Holy Spirit.

What is it to be baptized with the Holy Spirit? You know dear brothers and sisters we are often by awkward and very often we begin to lose sight of what God has really done on the day of Pentecost. Something tremendous not just a spectacular sight but something tremendous and essential has happened.

And what has happened was these people 120 were baptized in two in spirit. They were baptized into one body. They were no longer just a congregation of 120 members. They are now a body with 120 members.

That's what happened on the day of Pentecost. Did the other people see, hear the sound in your version probably it said and the sound was heard. Most likely these 120 people heard the sound because they were in the room.

They saw party tongues and of fire falling upon them. But to the rest of the room not the sound spread the rumor that something had happened in that upper room. So people from all over the city began to gather.

How could all these people gather in that upper room, there wasn't room for that. So evidently because what had happened in that upper room the rumor began to spread and people began to gather. And you find they were moving from that upper room.

But that upper room probably is near the temple. So evidently they moved from that upper room to somewhere near the temple because only there you can gather these thousands of people in that upper room.

It's impossible. So evidently this happened very early in the morning and the rumor spread and you find people began to gather. And when they gathered it was not in the upper room it was somewhere in the temple, it was towards the morning prayer in the temple, so people moved to the temple.

Now if you can see this probably these people the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the men of Judea they haven't heard the tongues because they were not in the house. They didn't see the tongues as a fire on the head of these hundred and twenty people.

Probably by that time the fight was gone. What they had seen and heard was not the sound nor the prophet tongues. What they seen and heard were these hundred and twenty people on fire for the Lord speaking of the great things of God and speaking in tongues.

That's what they heard. So you see there was a little bit different here the appearance was different but the essential here was a hundred and twenty people who had become one body. Now that's what is the need is the spiritual, these hundred and twenty people speaking in their own dialect.

Now I don't know how hard it worked. Think of it. A hundred and twenty people they were all speaking and thousands of people gathered around them and they heard they spoke the great things of God in their own dialect.

Suppose there were a hundred and twenty people here and we were all speaking at the same time and all in different dialects. And those people gathered around us could they hear anything. They couldn't hear a word because there was confusion.

Say a hundred and twenty people all talking and talking in different tongues and people gathered around the circle around us they couldn't hear a thing. So how did it happen, I don't know. I suppose probably it worked this way, I don't know probably these hundred and twenty people they were each speaking in one dialect.

And when people gathered naturally they were gathered to that person who spoke in that dialect. And maybe a person was speaking to say thirty people or fifty people and a hundred and twenty people speaking each to a small group here a group, there a group and then everybody can hear and there will be no confusion there will be order.

I don't know, I mean I'm just thinking aloud, that's all. But anyway you'll find that these thousands of people gathered together they heard them speaking all the great things of God in their own dialect.

Tongues as the Reversal of Babel

You cannot help but go back to Genesis because there you'll find in Genesis when the people of the world gathered themselves together with one mind to build a power that will reach heaven in order to manifest their name.

God is a sign when God first created man we all speak the same tongue. We can understand we can understand each other. But because man rebelled against God, speaking in one tongue drew them together. So they began to try to build a power for themselves against God so God disturbed them by giving them different tongues so one could not understand the other, and they started tongue was a sign of curse it scattered.

God is reversing people being scattered divided because of different tongues. Now God gives the gifts of tongues to draw them together instead of a sign of curse, it has become a sign of blessing. Instead of scattering it began to gather out of every nation every tongue, every people every tribe, he has gathered people together.

That's the reason why on the day of Pentecost, the tongues the gift of tongues to reverse the curse regather a people, what is the meaning of the baptism with the Holy Spirit. What does baptism give, Peter said these people they were amazed, they were perplexed, they didn't know what to say, and some of them began to mock, oh these people are full of wine that's all new wine sweet wine, they were just full of wine, so Peter and eleven stood up no longer Peter alone but Peter and eleven, quiet, they were Peter and eleven stood up and he began man these people are not drunk, because this is only the third hour that is nine o 'clock in the morning and according to the Jewish custom before they have their morning prayer, they will not eat anything or drink anything.

So it cannot be that these people were drunk because it was just nine o 'clock the morning prayer. If they would drink, they would drink afterwards. Not before that these people are not drunk but this, this is, this is that which is prophesied in Jewel in Jewel chapter 2 verse 28 in the last day God said I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh.

Young men shall see vision. Old men shall dream dreams. My born men and my born women shall prophesy and there shall be sign in heaven and on earth bullet and whosoever call it upon the name of the Lord shall people were not drunk with wine.

These people received what God had prophesied in Jewel the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit had poured out upon them. That's what it is. But dear brothers and sisters you read very carefully this is, is this in Jewel.

You'll find when the Holy Spirit will be poured out upon the flesh what happens, what signs do you have. Young men shall see vision. Old men, on the day of Pentecost there was neither vision nor dream, instead you have tongue, in other words it is not the outward appearance.

The outward appearance may change. God may give signs differently at different times. But what. Having therefore been exhorted by the right hand of God and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit he has poured out this which ye behold and hear, God had exhorted our Lord Jesus up to his right hand and he received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit which he poured out what you see and you hear, verse 36 let the whole house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God hath made him, this Jesus whom ye have crucified, both Lord, now whenever you find the word therefore you know it is continuing what is said before, in other words therefore is the consequence there is a cause, therefore there is such a result.

Christ’s Exaltation and the Outpouring of the Spirit

So here you'll find the word therefore actually connect with verse 33 because 34 and 35 are parenthetical if you read it you'll find it is a parenthetical explanation for David has not ascended into heaven but he says himself the Lord said unto my Lord sit at my right hand until I put my enemies to be the footstool of thy sheep, it is an explanation in parenthetical it is the Lord who has exhorted to the right hand of God, not David.

Now what is the meaning of the Lord being ascended at the right hand of the Father and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, what is the meaning of it. Therefore let it be known that God hath made him this Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord you remember when the Lord was ascended these brethren they were looking up, the Lord was taking up, they saw him going up, but then a cloud came, they couldn't see him anymore they were still looking up but they couldn't see him, he must be going up and up and up but they couldn't see him anymore, that the Lord hath arrived they saw him go up half way maybe or maybe just a little distance how could they be sure that this risen Lord is exhorted at the right hand of the Father and is made by the Father as Christ and Lord over all, how can they be sure of it, where is the proof.

The proof is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit if the Lord has not arrived, if the Lord is not made Lord and Christ over all the Holy Spirit will not be the very coming down of the Holy Spirit proves the exhortation of the Lord so in Psalm, 2nd Psalm you will find it is said here, verse 6 and I have anointed my king upon Zion the heel of my holiness I will declare the decree, Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou art my son, I this day have begotten thee, as of me and I will give thee nations for inheritance and for thy possessions and the ends of the earth I have anointed my king upon Zion, the heel of my holiness, of course the Zion here does not point to the earthly Zion, it points to the heavenly Zion and the ascension of our Lord Jesus God has anointed him and if you connect this with Psalm 133, you will find the ointment was poured upon Aaron's head and it flows down to his ear and it goes down when the Lord was ascended there in heaven God anointed him as Lord opened the same ointment oil flows down.

The outpouring of the Holy Spirit is the result of the exhortation of Christ to put it in another way the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is for the exhortation of Christ, what is the meaning of the baptism with the Holy Spirit, the meaning of the baptism with the Holy Spirit is that we may see Christ as the Lord over all that is the first meaning.

So in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 it says unless one is in the Holy Spirit he cannot say Jesus is Lord, not as a matter of list, as a matter of reality, how can you say Jesus is Lord with all realness to you, it is the Holy Spirit that enables you to see and to announce, to declare so the first meaning of the baptism with the Holy Spirit Jesus, if a person is filled with the Holy Spirit he should see Jesus, if a person does not see Jesus as Lord if he does not honor our Lord Jesus as the Lord the head, how can we be filled with the Holy Spirit, if we can see, if we only can see Jesus as Lord we will be filled instead of seeking for an experience, seek to see Jesus then you will experience the filling so that is the first meaning of the first meaning of the baptism in the Holy Spirit, Christ Jesus must be Lord, he must be head over all things to the church before the body can be found.

In other words the head must be in his place then the body will be found. So on the day of Pentecost it is the exaltation of Christ the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is the truth of the exaltation of Christ and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit to bring us in 1st Corinthians chapter 12, God begins to explain the meaning of baptism to us in one spirit we were baptized, whether Jews or Gentiles and we were made to drink of one, what is the meaning of Pentecost, what is the meaning of the baptism in the Holy Spirit in one spirit we were baptized into one body whether Jews or Gentiles, on the day of Pentecost the Jews all those people that were on the day of Pentecost were Jews.

The 120 people were Jews all the 3000 were Jews either Jews or Apostles, mainly Jews. But on the day in the house of Cornelius you have the Gentiles and in the whole Bible only in these two places Acts chapter 2 and Acts chapter 10 you find only in these two occasions, on the day of Pentecost in the house of Cornelius the word baptized with the Holy Spirit aside from these two places baptism with the Holy Spirit is never used.

On the day of Pentecost it was the Jews, there was only part of it, in the house of Cornelius the Gentiles the other part and when the Jews and Gentiles were baptized with the Spirit into one body, strictly speaking strictly speaking baptism with the Holy Spirit is a corporate experience not an individual, we were all baptized, now that doesn't mean that we cannot and should not have personal experience of it.

It doesn't mean that what I'm trying to say is we have to see what the word says the baptism with the Holy Spirit is for the whole church it is a corporate experience not an individual independent people.

Their experience with the Lord concerning the Holy Spirit come by peace and victory. If we may say that way first during the earthly day of our Lord Jesus in view of the death of our Lord Jesus these disciples must be regenerated by the Holy Spirit.

Don't ask me to explain more I cannot, but we have to believe it this way, you know because like Peter, like John, like these people certainly they will be regenerated. No doubt about that you cannot postpone their regeneration after the death of the Lord Jesus he that is born of the Spirit is spirit, and the Lord said that to Nicodemus even before he said, in view of his death, you know for surely with these disciples they were born of the Spirit during the earthly days of our Lord Jesus in view of his death.

Regeneration by the Holy Spirit is connected to the death of our Lord Jesus what the Lord said if I be lifted up as Moses lifted up the serpent so the Son of Man will be lifted up and all who see him shall live.

And that refers to the cross it is the cross the death of our Lord Jesus on the basis of his death that the Holy Spirit regenerates us and surely the early disciples had this experience even before the cross, I mean I don't know how to explain it more.

That's all I can say. Then you see on the day of resurrection of our Lord Jesus the Lord appeared to his disciples he breathed into them and said we see you in this environment because this is the fulfillment of his promise to his disciples in John chapter 14 to chapter 16 in that day it is the day of resurrection the comforter shall come and he shall dwell in you.

Regeneration, Indwelling, and the Filling of the Spirit

So you'll find when these early disciples their experience of the enduring Holy Spirit came on the day of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus, their regeneration connect with the Lord's death, their receiving the enduring Holy Spirit as a person, as a comforter in them on the day of the Lord's resurrection without the Holy Spirit in dwells them, how can a hundred hundred people be together for ten days, not even for ten hours, and you know these disciples, even when the Lord was there with them, how often they quarreled among themselves, but no more quarrels they were under the Holy Spirit, they could pray together with one accord for ten days, can you do that without the Holy Spirit.

You cannot, so you'll find they had the Holy Spirit in them, they were not only regenerated by the Holy Spirit but they had the enduring Holy Spirit in them like a cup here is a cup in the cup you pour some water there there is already water in the cup, thus it has not come to the brim nor is it overflowing now this was the condition of the disciples before the day of Pentecost here you'll find these cups they had water in them, they all had water in them thus they were not overflowing with water and on the day of Pentecost as if a shower came and so much water poured into these cups they were still to the overflowing, that in other words the work of the Holy Spirit comes to me, what will be the experience of the three thousand who heard the gospel on the day of Pentecost do they have to go through the same steps, one, two, three the Lord has already died he has already resurrected he has already ascended exalted, everything is gone the Holy Spirit has come do they have to first be generated by the Holy Spirit then wait for a certain period to know the indwelling Holy Spirit and then wait for another period to have the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the contrary what Peter preached to these people is very very simple you remember what he said to these people, he said repent, they haven't repented yet, repent and be baptized with water, each one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for remission of sins and ye will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit for to you is the promise and to your children and to all who are afar off as many as the Lord our God may call repent baptized, receive the gift of the Holy Spirit now the gift of the Holy Spirit here does not refer to the diverse gifts of the Holy Spirit, it refers to the Holy Spirit as the gift, and this promise is for you, and for your children, for those who are near and for those who are far away in other words, their experience of the Holy Spirit can be and should be one all together, and we can prove it later on not this morning, these 3 ,000 people, their experience of the Holy Spirit was not in peace merely receive the Holy Spirit in his totality all together, they were regenerated on that day they had the enduring Holy Spirit on that day, and they were filled with the Holy Spirit, they became the body of Christ, the body from 120 within a day grows to 3 ,000.

Dear brothers and sisters what is the baptism with the Holy Spirit, it brings us into a realization of Jesus as the Lord, and it brings us into the body as members one of another, now you will find our Lord Jesus can continue, because this is none other than himself it is himself extended, on the day of Pentecost, the gift of tongue was given, why?

Spiritual Gifts Serve the Body

Because, for a purpose to gather those scattered people together, and then in 1st Colossians 12 you find the Holy Spirit according to what pleases him gives this for the edifying, brothers and sisters, let us use an illustration you know in the temple or in the tabernacle after everything was made according to order after everything was set up in order, the tabernacle or the temple become anointed, everything must be anointed, all the furniture must be anointed all the priests must be anointed the anointing of the furniture and the priest somehow quickens everything into life, brothers and sisters when we receive the Holy Spirit what happens?

In other words, as we become members of the body every member has a function. So, the Holy Spirit in filling us he activates that function by giving us it is not your manifestation nor my manifestation, it is the manifestation of the Holy Spirit.

How? He manifests himself through these gifts. So here you'll find these gifts were activated and began to function but these gifts are not given for personal display. These gifts are given for the building up.

There will be many, but remember and the gifts are the Holy Spirit, one is primary, the other in other words, the Holy Spirit himself is the gift of God. And because you have received the Holy Spirit as the gift of God, he will give you gifts, and all these manifestations are for the edifying the building up.

But how we need to be filled with the Holy Spirit in order that we may be living, functioning. What do you mean by filling with the Holy Spirit? It means you are under the control of the Holy Spirit. If you really give yourself to the Lord, and you're under the control of the Holy Spirit he will activate you as a living.

If you are not filled with the Holy Spirit if you are not under his control then you are a member, but a non-functioning, almost dying member. That's the difference. I don't know if by going through together in this way it may put everything in a better perspective, I don't know I hope, I hope we can see what God is really at, it is more than a personal experience it is more than a manifestation of one or other kind, what God is really after is a that functions under the head, so the head is able to continue his speaking, if we do not see this, and we try to lay hold of the secondary or the incidental, I'm afraid we miss may the Lord really help us to really enter into the soul, to how the body is formed, and how the members are into together under the head so that the body is the beginning of the church, Heavenly Father our one desire is to see what Thou art really at, Lord we pray that we may see Thou art after a body a living body under the living head, Thou does desire to continue to do and to speak through this body.

O that we may be filled with eyes with functioning members of the body, through which Thou art able to and Lord it is all for Thy sake, we pray that we may be delivered from confusion, but really know, O Lord we ask in the name of our Lord Jesus.